Open-source News

The Mozilla Ocho group has published their newest version of Llamafile, the open-source project that makes it very easy to distribute and run large language models (LLMs) as a single file. Llamafile is an excellent solution for easily sharing and running LLMs and supporting both speedy CPU-based execution as well as GPU acceleration where available...

This Week In GNOME is out with their newest edition to outline all of the interesting developments as we approach the end of May...

Intel software engineers did a late Friday night release of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library v1.1, their Python library for tapping into the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found on the new Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) processors. This Python library makes it easier to interface with the Intel VPU/NPU kernel driver and in turn enjoying accelerated operations for AI...

It was a busy week for KDE developers ahead of yesterday's Plasma 6.1 Beta release. KDE developer Nate Graham in his weekly development summary outlined all of the interesting changes to make it into the Plasma 6.1 desktop ahead of the feature freeze that went into effect with the beta release...

Cybercriminals double exploitation of Linux vulnerabilities  CIO News

Merged this Friday evening into the Linux 6.10 kernel is the new mseal() system call for memory sealing...

Memory Sealing "mseal" System Call Merged For Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Famed open-source AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has landed 13 more patches in Mesa 24.2-devel to provide fixes for GFX12 (RDNA4) graphics IP while also adding more GFX11 (RDNA3) APUs...

New AMD RDNA3 APUs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver Along With RDNA4 Fixes  Phoronix

Switch from Windows 11 to Linux this Memorial Day with Ultramarine 40  BetaNews

The beta release of Plasma 6.1 is now available for testing over the US holiday weekend...

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released with Explicit Sync Support on Wayland  9to5Linux

The four month old KWin merge request by Xaver Hugl to allow for triple buffering has been merged and just in time for the Plasma 6.1 code branching!..

The System Shock remake will not be released on Linux and Mac computers, though funds have been raised to do so  gagadget.com

Why are people like you and me FLEEING Windows-11...for Linux Desktop? NOW!  ASEAN NOW

For those considering an Intel Core Ultra 7 165U "Meteor Lake" powered laptop, here are some benchmarks of the 165U using a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 compared against the Acer Swift 14 with the Core Ultra 7 155H (Meteor Lake), the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U (Zen 4) within the Framework 13, and the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS (Zen 4) within the Framework 16 under Linux.

Intel Core Ultra 7 165U "Meteor Lake" Linux Performance  Phoronix

USENIX Security ’23 – Mitigating Security Risks in Linux with KLAUS: A Method for Evaluating Patch ...  Security Boulevard

POCL as the "Portable Computing Language" OpenCL implementation that originally began as a CPU-based run-time and has expanded to support a variety of GPU and accelerator targets is out with its first release candidate of the upcoming PoCL 6.0...

Last week saw the main Btrfs pull request for Linux 6.10 that delivered on some performance optimizations while today saw a secondary set of merge window changes for this CoW file-system that is now adding back the "norecovery" mount option...